plansh in africa. we have now learned that a georgetown law school student wa on that ill fated flight. the dean of georgetown's law school sending out that information to the school community. cedrick aishavugwa was born and raised in kenya and headed home to attd the funeral of his ibancee's mother. the school des him as a stellar student who championed social jusce around the world. he was one of 157 people killed when the flightly crashed sho after takeoff today, a story we will continue to follow this evening. in sports tonight, the caps goingheir seventh straight win. coming up as the team pushes towards the playoffs, hat is the biggest keyhe to anot stanley cup run? stanley cup run? the voice of the

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strikeout. the offense, it was a big day for the kieboom brothers. gives this one a ride to left center. stays in the park. luis garcia comes in to score. spencer currently the number three catcher on the roster. in the seventh, it's his bro, carter kieboom. rips it to right.at an rbi single. big day for the brothers. kieboom as the nats win 6-4. thanks to shakira austin's clutch block with 1.5 seconds left, marylandn' wo hoops beat michigan to advance to their fifth straight big ten championship game. if the top seeded terps their fourth conference title, they have to beat number ten iowaho they lost to earlier this season. that game currently under way. we'll have highlights tonight at 11:00. to radford, virginia. tournament bid on the line. highlanders taking on gardner-webb and the big south

final. dj laster trying to make sure his bulldogs are the ones who end up dancing nice flush there, worth another look. laster had a game-high 32 points. the second half, radford rallying. devonte holland with the tip-in. it's a five-point game with just over five minutes remaining. t on the next possession, jose perez dras the ree, and radford falls short as gardner-webb wins 76-65.ul theogs earn their first trip to the ncaa tournament. >> all right. cary, thank you very plch. a c seconds to talk about the weather and how your chart to the workweek is going to look. >> ye t, i thinks one is more of wee nothing but sunshine. upper 50s tomorrow. a little bit of a drop on tuesday. but by thursday, we're talking 63 for yourev friday. higher in the upper 60s. and, of course, along with mperatures that high, things

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>> announcer: from nbc news erworld headqua in new york, this is ""nbc nightly news" with kate sn. good morning. passengers on an ethiopian airlines flight from ethiopia to kenya came from at least eight countries. eight were americans. not one of the 157 on board survived when brand new boeing 737 max 8 went dn suddenly this morning, leaving investigators with a lot of questions. nbc's keir simmons has our report. >> reporter: a devastating scene tonight. the aircraft ripped apart. pieces of the plane on a crash site the size of a football field. the p nt of impact, a huge crater. bodies and belongings strewn across the ethiopian countryside. among them, a lone shoe and napkins from the airline.

tonight, grief-stricken families are mourning loved ones. of the 149 passengers and 8 crew members, 8 were americans. et 302 lost contact six minutte afr takeoff. at 8:44 a.m. local time, crashing about 30 minutes from the airport. the cause, still unclear. though data from flight radar 24 showed the vertical speed whether the plane was climbing or dcending was unstable after >> it is one of the safest airlines in the world. at this stage, we cannot rule t anything. >> reporter: the boeing 737 max 8 is the same one involved in the indonesian lion air jet crash in october, which also went down shortly after takeoff from jakarta, killing 108 people. boeing said it's sending team work with ethiopian andor

transport auies. in nairobi, this passenger was lucky to be alive because he missed the flight. >> so when i reached add is abaa they told me to take the second flight. >> reporter: tonight, relatives around the world wait fo r news, including one father said to have lost h wife and two children. keir simmons, nbc news, ndon. >> tom costello covers aviation for us. he's in ourre washington . as we heard this is now the second crash involving a boeing8 737 max in just five months. that has a lot of people concerned. >> it is concerning. it's a brand new, state of the art plane. we don'tf know i these two crashes are related. we're talking, of course, about the lion air crash last octoner off indoa. investigators believe bad data, sensing a stall, the computers then pushed the nose down to pick upir speed. the pilots struggledhe to pull nose up but may not have known they were fighting a new automated anti-stall

called mctas that boeing never told pilots about. boeing insists ln air pilots should have known how to disengage the system. the priority in ethiopia is to find the plane's black boxes, listen to the flight recorder, recorder.he data arere theimilarities or something else, like an on-board explosion or fire, problem with an engine or computer failure? it is a high priority because the 737 max 8 is the best-selling. americans, southwest, united and airanada all fly it. so far, none of them have reported any problems. >> lot ofuestions tonight. tom, thank you. residents across the south are cleaning t upight after ten reported tornadoes hit five states this weekend, causing widespread damage and injuries. steve patterson is in the storm zone with more. >> reporter: southerners need to see this weekend, thiwas dead

last. one week after the worst utbreak of tornadoes in years blasted thesouth, killing 23 in alabama. saturday, twisters raged again. ten were reported from texas to tennessee, mississippi to louisiana, where four were spotted, cau widespread damage. >>'ve been here off and on for 70, 81 years. and i've never seen anything like this. >> reporter: in arkansas, three touched down, one destroying this home,ur ig two inside, both expected to recover. >> i don't even know what i'm looking at here gary, this whole -- everything is gone, right? >> yeah. here are the beams,edron beams. it just more or less collapsed on to everything. >> reporter: across town, gary dow sey is learning what's important after his soy bean farm's storage shop was shredded. >> it won't take long to do it b we'l right back where we

were. >> reporter: now clean up. families sifting through the wreckage, searching for anything that could be salvageable. perspective from the heartland. >> we won't even know it happened a few months from now. >> reporter: after smuch loss. tonight we take you to the most dangerous place in the world to be a child, central african republic. years of civil war have left thatountry inuins and children have been forced to become soldiers. now there's a despe te effort to bring them to safety. nbc's cynthia mcfadden traveled to the country and has been reporting extensively on this. she has our report tonight. >> reporter: this is the face of a soldier, raciella, 11 years old when her father was murdered and she was abducted by an armed group. >> translator: the first day i was terrified. we were given knives. it was the first time i ever saw an armed group.

>> reporter: you were really a prisoner. she is from the central afr an republic, where six years of htfierce figing between muslim rebels and christian militias have left the nation in ruins. one of the halmillion children are at risk of starvation and tens of thousands of them are forced to become soldiers. we first saw graciella when she bravely took the stage at t u.n. >> translator: i know what it's like to be alone, to be hurt and to lose my childhood. >> reporter: we met up with graciella on the country's capital. she tells us the memories still haunt her. were you asked to carry a gun or weapon? >> translator: i was given a machete. i didn't wan to use it. >> reporter: were you forced to? >> yes. >> the most dangerous place in the world for children. >> reporter: unicef is fighting

to save children here. we travel in with their ceo carol stern. >> two of every three children in this country are in need of humanitarian assistance right now. >> reporter: including a group of recently released child soldiers. she takes us to meet them at a rehabilitation camp sponsored by unicef. >> you hear these horrific stories from the beginnings of their lives, losing their families to rebel groups. >> reporter: for their protection we'ved agr not to show their faces. they've not gone through the program and are still easy targets for the rebels. if you don't want to answer this, don't. but what with were you asked to do? >> translator: the hardest thing was to go and take people and asking us to kill those people or sometimes beat them up. >> reporter: did you feel that what you were doing was wrong? >> translator: he was just obeying orders. >> reporter: you do know it's not your fault. you are a child >> translator: he says i know

but i had to do it to protect myself. >> reporter: bridget was a soldier for three years until something she heard gave her hope s >> translato heard that unicef was willing to take the kids away from the armed groups. >> reporter: do you worry about the other kids who are left behind? >> translator: she's worried.ts she w them to be out. >> reporter: several thousand children are fighting with the 13 armed groups who control this country. unicef tells us it takes $1300 to rehabilitate each child and there are thousands more children waiting to be rescued and could be, but there isn't the money to do it. >> learning to forgive themselves is the hardest part of coming back. but their desire to do so, their understanding that they are young, they have a life in front of them and they can and will be more is remarkable. >> reporter: including graciella who is 17 now. she's struggling to go to school as bus fare is hard to comeby. in a recent attack, the home she

shares with her sister was burned down but even after all that, she still has dreams. >> reporter: you've now been out for a few years. you've gone through the unicef program. what do you want to be when you graduate from school? >> translator: first i want to study computing. and when i'm done, i want to go and work with unicef because eventually it's unicef that got me out of this and now i want to work with them. >> reporter: you want to pay back? >> yes. >> reporter: cynthia mcf nbc news, central african republic. good news to share. since cynthia's reports began airing last week, unicef tells us tonight people have donated $1.5 million for their life-saving efforts to help and prt children there. if you want to help please visit nbc news.com. still ahead tonight, a woman with my friends to our annual get-together, especially after being diagnosed last year with advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

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that just happened. >> we do not hold the jaguar responsible for what happened, and it s been concluded that the injuries were caused due to human error. >> reporter: the zoo says the woman is now the second the cat's attacked after breaking rules. selfie related inciden a on the rise, from 2011 to 2017, 259 people died while attempting to take selfies. fell toer, a couple their deaths at yosemite national park during trip they shared on instagram. in 2017, a close call for teens at new york's central park when an p icyd gave way mid selfie. in arizona, the woman'snjies aren't life threatening. zoo officials say she even returned today to apologize. o >> you cross over the barrier, you're not only jeopardizing your own safy but the safety of other guests. >> reporter: a reminder of the

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only pay for what you need. finally tonight, swimming can be great for exercisend physical therapy and a group of seniors here in new york are showing it can do more than that. here is ron allen. >> reporter: when the harlem honeys and bears hit the pool ey come together ason a synchronized team, 55 and older, united by a love ofwimming a dance. their coach of 30 years has little tim for funnd games. >> break, break, break! >> reporter: you're really tough with them. >> but they know, theyta unders that all is coming

from love. >> down. up. >> reporter: reigning their sport in new york, the team is celebrating its 40th t anniversary air health and well-being. >> without swimming, i would be in t doctor's office frequently. >> reporter: 96-year-old latisse aham started swimming at age 64. >> i try to get in the pool five days a week. >> reporter: the water is >> yes, yes. it's the best sport in the world. >> reporter: monica hale, team captain, agrees. >> a lot of us came her sick d this was given to us as therapy and it t tns outo be the best thing that ever ed happen. you realize your body can move in ways you never thought it could. >> reporter: monica and one of the few bears on theteam, luther gales, made it look easy. so i gave it a try. >> this is fun. >> a lot of work on the arms. >> reporter: when they do it it's an aquatic ballet. ♪ >> go!

>> reporter: the team alsots connecith the community, teaching kids how to swim. >> one, two, three, breathe. just your neck. >> reporter: 70% of african-americans can't. and black children drown more frequently than other children. but most days, you'll find the honeys and bears perfecting their moves, swimming and dancing in the water. ron allen, nbc news new york. >> just love that. that is "nbc nightly news" on a sunday. lester holt will be back in tomorrow. i'm kate snow. for all of us here at nbcreews, have a night. .

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